The NRA Gets Even Worse: New Ad Continues Attacking Obama’s Daughters, Lashes Out at Media

The National Rifle Association is in full-fledged attack mode today, with another video advertisement whining about media criticism and calling President Obama a “hypocrite” for sending his daughters to a school with armed guards.

There’s no mystery about who they’re appealing to with ads like this: the lunatic right wing base. The ad is packed with far right memes. And notice how they never use the words “President Obama” — that’s not an accident. They’re making a conscious appeal to the wingnuts who don’t believe Obama’s presidency is legitimate.

Makes sense. Given that many wingers don’t understand the first thing about what mainstream liberals think or what we value, you might as well feed your audience a walking caricature of a nutcase lefty to reinforce those delusions.

So this is how the NRA wants to sell armed guards, or something, in schools by comparing it to how many guards the children of the President of the United States of America requires? That’s interesting because I could have sworn I read something…

Take executive action to provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers: COPS Hiring Grants, which help police departments hire officers, can already be used by departments to fund school resource officers. This year, the Department of Justice will provide an incentive for police departments to hire these officers by providing a preference for grant applications that support school resource officers.

We need to make our schools safer, not only by enhancing their physical security and making sure they are prepared to respond to emergencies like a mass shooting, but also by creating safer and more nurturing school climates that help prevent school violence. Each school is different and should have the flexibility to address its most pressing needs. Some schools will want trained and armed police; others may prefer increased counseling services. Either way, each district should be able to choose what is best to protect its own students.

Problem is, LaPierre still has a non-zero chance of political victory.

Yes its true. But increasingly I get the feeling we are watching the tide turning in the culture war. These guys are finding out that the keys to the kingdom they have taken for granted and abused don’t quite work on some of these new locks.

And of course ignoring that an attack against the First Family could lead to potential blackmail, extortion, threats that directly affect US domestic or foreign policy (or both), if captured by kidnappers, or the outright attempts at assassination because of who they are related to. The First Family is a target. Period.

Yes its true. But increasingly I get the feeling we are watching the tide turning in the culture war. These guys are finding out that the keys to the kingdom they have taken for granted and abused don’t quite work on some of these new locks.

I hope so. There is a possibility that “NRA = raving gun nut” gets implanted into public perception, which would be very useful.

So this is how the NRA wants to sell armed guards, or something, in schools by comparing it to how many guards the children of the President of the United States of America requires? That’s interesting because I could have sworn I read something…

That’s part of the reason the NEA endorsed Obama’s proposals, because it actually allows schools to decide what sort of security they need, if they need it, rather than bringing a bunch of trained “volunteers” onto the premises who have no idea how to properly act on school grounds.

That’s part of the reason the NEA endorsed Obama’s proposals, because it actually allows schools to decide what sort of security they need, if they need it, rather than bringing a bunch of trained “volunteers” onto the premises who have no idea how to properly act on school grounds.

The NRA “proposals” were probably intended to make gun violence more likely.

Kucinich: Fox News’ brand-new token “liberal”, who happens to be one of the biggest moonbats around and is completely unrepresentative of the modern Democratic Party…and who will be dragged out on TV whenever the network wants to make the Democrats look batshit crazy.

Dennis better hope that he’s getting paid exceedingly well, because he’s about to get used more than a twenty-dollar whore.

And of course ignoring that an attack against the First Family could lead to potential blackmail, extortion, threats that directly affect US domestic or foreign policy (or both), if captured by kidnappers, or the outright attempts at assassination because of who they are related to. The First Family is a target. Period.

The same cant’ be said of most everyone else in America.

This argument is a conscious appeal to the flat-out dumbest segment of the right wing base, the people to whom “critical thinking” is a bad thing. The NRA producers of this ad know better, I’m absolutely certain - they know exactly how deceptive and nonsensical the “hypocrisy” argument is. They’re using it as a tool to rile up the unthinking rube contingent among their membership.

This argument is a conscious appeal to the flat-out dumbest segment of the right wing base, the people to whom “critical thinking” is a bad thing. The NRA producers of this ad know better, I’m absolutely certain - they know exactly how deceptive and nonsensical the “hypocrisy” argument is. They’re using it as a tool to rile up the unthinking rube contingent among their membership.

Because that contingent is gonna go out and buy even more guns in response to this “tyranny.”

A buddy who’s bought a couple guns in recent years pointed out that most gun purchases now come with a 1 year free membership in the NRA, which would probably go a far way to explaining the “rise” in the NRA’s membership in response to Newtown.

A buddy who’s bought a couple guns in recent years pointed out that most gun purchases now come with a 1 year free membership in the NRA, which would probably go a far way to explaining the “rise” in the NRA’s membership in response to Newtown.

Depends on the professionalism of the LEs. IIRC the association of Chiefs of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent associations are pro-control. OTOH, after a series of assaults in our small town, the Chief told a convocation of concerned elderly women that they should get handguns of suitable size and take lessons.

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Depends on the professionalism of the LEs. IIRC the association of Chiefs of Police and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent associations are pro-control. OTOH, after a series of assaults in our small town, the Chief told a convocation of concerned elderly women that they should get handguns of suitable size and take lessons.

A lot of rank and file cops from what I can see are very, very conservative, really don’t like the President (especially after the bullshit arrest of that professor in Boston who was a friend of the the President) and tend to own a wide variety of weapons beyond what they just use for work.

The officials are politicized to some degree and will go along with the Mayor’s office. Many of the rank and file are saying in forums that they are not going to enforce gun control laws.

A buddy who’s bought a couple guns in recent years pointed out that most gun purchases now come with a 1 year free membership in the NRA, which would probably go a far way to explaining the “rise” in the NRA’s membership in response to Newtown.

That would explain a lot —- the membership numbers may be more politically useful to the NRA than any normal level of annual dues. There is no shortage of $$$ for RW nut jobs.

A buddy who’s bought a couple guns in recent years pointed out that most gun purchases now come with a 1 year free membership in the NRA, which would probably go a far way to explaining the “rise” in the NRA’s membership in response to Newtown.

Normally I buy used guns because I tend to like older & old fashioned ones (been called a Fudd more than once) but the “free NRA membership card that came with the occasional new gun like my Marlin .22 rifle, went straight into the shredder.

But yeah, especially people who aren’t in the loop about these things might think it as harmless to send in as the free Lego Club magazine advertised in every set of Legos.

A buddy who’s bought a couple guns in recent years pointed out that most gun purchases now come with a 1 year free membership in the NRA, which would probably go a far way to explaining the “rise” in the NRA’s membership in response to Newtown.

Tried-and-tested way to inflate the membership numbers: bundle it for free with new gun sales, as you work the media to incite nutjobs and hoarders to buy those guns.

All these misquotes make me want to write a bunch of names & quotes (preferably by historical figures whose ideologies varied wildly), cut them into individual squares, dump the names in one paper bag and the quotes in another, shake them up, then pull a random name & quote from each bag and tweet it as if it were legit.

Or program a crazy random quote generator. Might be a fun project. LOL

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) on Wednesday sent a letter to Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R) and state Speaker of the House Philip Gunn (R) asking them to make President Barack Obama’s effort to control gun violence “illegal.”

Bryant made his letter public by posting it on Facebook hours before the president had even announced the gun safety measures.

“President Obama will likely issue an Executive Order today that infringes our constitutional right to keep and bear arms as never before in American history,” Bryant writes. “I am asking that you immediately pass legislation that would make any unconstitutional order the the President illegal to enforce in Mississippi by state or local law enforcement.”

All these misquotes make me want to write a bunch of names & quotes (preferably by historical figures whose ideologies varied wildly), cut them into individual squares, dump the names in one paper bag and the quotes in another, shake them up, then pull a random name & quote from each bag and tweet it as if it were legit.

Or program a crazy random quote generator. Might be a fun project. LOL

“That which does not kill us makes us fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can go ahead and make my day”
~John F. Winston Heston, 488 AD

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. When one of them gets gulaged they whine that it’s because of liberals don’t respect free speech like they do, then they turn around and try to do the exact same thing.

Hope someone pointed out that the 23 points are a list of ‘executive actions’. Most are not ever going to be Executive Orders, which are formal instructions to the Executive Branch. Some of these need no more authority than a phonecall: “Hey Sebelius, start talking to people’.

There was a flame war going on about gun control on David Frum’s blog today, and one commenter said that nobody cares about racial dog whistles. I suggested that Karl Rove probably cares, since the overwhelming support minorities give to the Democrats are a big hinderance to the GOP’s election chances. Another commenter replied to me that “the blacks” don’t understand the appeals made by the GOP to them, and they just want free stuff that the Dems promise, derp derp derp derp…

Why on earth would the NRA let these memberships expire? My prediction is (intentional) sloppy paperwork on their part for expiring members (or a quiet conversion of these freebies to life memberships).

There was a flame war going on about gun control on David Frum’s blog today, and one commenter said that nobody cares about racial dog whistles. I suggested that Karl Rove probably cares, since the overwhelming support minorities give to the Democrats are a big hinderance to the GOP’s election chances. Another commenter replied to me that “the blacks” don’t understand the appeals made by the GOP to them, and they just want free stuff that the Dems promise, derp derp derp derp…

Like you said, their own worst enemy. Keep talking.

The appeals to the GOP made by them? Do they mean their party’s nominee saying blacks only support Obama because they want free stuff or do they mean nominating candidates like Rand Paul who are open about the fact that they would oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964 if it was placed before them today.Really, the only people who should be supporting the GOP are rich straight white Christian dudes. The GOP platform is basically to protect their status quo and make life harder for anyone else.

There was a flame war going on about gun control on David Frum’s blog today, and one commenter said that nobody cares about racial dog whistles. I suggested that Karl Rove probably cares, since the overwhelming support minorities give to the Democrats are a big hinderance to the GOP’s election chances. Another commenter replied to me that “the blacks” don’t understand the appeals made by the GOP to them, and they just want free stuff that the Dems promise, derp derp derp derp…

Like you said, their own worst enemy. Keep talking.

I know the guy you are talking about. Deep_South_Populist is one of the most aggressively ignorant and hateful trolls at Frum. The guy is a twin of “Dim” Dehoft.

Why on earth would the NRA let these memberships expire? My prediction is (intentional) sloppy paperwork on their part for expiring members (or a quiet conversion of these freebies to life memberships).

Easy fix. Membership is free, but to get the cool stuff, you need to be a special gold star member.

You get to keep your official numbers high, while you only have to put out the good stuff to people who pay.

Kansan Gerald B. Winrod organized a quasi-fascist group called Defenders of the Christian Faith and stirred his followers up through his periodical, The Defender. It attacked not only the Jews but also a curious list of offenders and offenses including Darwinists, alcohol, smoking, nudism, loosely defined modernism, the Illuminati, Marxism, birth control devices… Freudians, dancing, immodest dress, Zionists, bears, and of course, the movies.

They are setting it up so that even if someone is arrested in that state by a federal officer, it will be very difficult to prosecute and the jury pool will be primed to acquit. That is how things worked back during the early days of the civil rights movement in the deep South when it was impossible to try a white man for murdering black men and women.

Maybe this is a good sign in a way - when a side is losing sometimes they go crazy and kamikaze themselves. Maybe this is a sign the NRA know they are losing and are going for broke and appealing to all they have left - the wingnuts?

Maybe this is a good sign in a way - when a side is losing sometimes they go crazy and kamikaze themselves. Maybe this is a sign the NRA know they are losing and are going for broke and appealing to all they have left - the wingnuts?

This isn’t anything really different from what they have been saying since 1992.

Maybe this is a good sign in a way - when a side is losing sometimes they go crazy and kamikaze themselves. Maybe this is a sign the NRA know they are losing and are going for broke and appealing to all they have left - the wingnuts?

IMHO that is exactly what it is. It is part of recognizing the rules of the game have shifted and not in one’s own favor. No different than the GOP grasping at straws and thinking that the answer is to go more conservative.

They want to experience the putative benefits of unrestricted capitalism, but not the costs. I doubt they even realize that high cost is a result of high demand and a real or imagined poor supply.

Exactly. For them, there is apparently no corollary between demand and cost. Maybe they’re of the opinion that guns just magically appear or grow on trees, ripe for the plucking. The more they demand, the higher the costs. Not just that, but the greater the demand, the more it creates a backorder situation on the supply end. I’m far from an economics genius, but I worked retail for ten years, including the infamous Furby and Tickle Me Elmo fads when demand exceeded supply a hundredfold.

Maybe this is a good sign in a way - when a side is losing sometimes they go crazy and kamikaze themselves. Maybe this is a sign the NRA know they are losing and are going for broke and appealing to all they have left - the wingnuts?

I like how kilmeade was giving examples of Republican children he said, “Rand Paul’s grandson, or Micheal J Fox’s character, Michael keating(sp)” ahem… Alex P Keaton, and you can’t even think of a freaking real life example.

All these misquotes make me want to write a bunch of names & quotes (preferably by historical figures whose ideologies varied wildly), cut them into individual squares, dump the names in one paper bag and the quotes in another, shake them up, then pull a random name & quote from each bag and tweet it as if it were legit.

Or program a crazy random quote generator. Might be a fun project. LOL